Michel Such

Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. » Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau... Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996. Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.

Known For: Acting

Born: Algiers, Algeria, 1944-08-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	The Laboratory of Fear	Antoine	49
2	1973	The Inheritor	(uncredited)	63
3	1975	That Most Important Thing: Love	Electrician	70
4	1975	Thomas	Antoine	0
5	1976	The Best Way to Walk	Léni	66
6	1977	Violette & Francois	Le copain musicien	61
7	1977	Spoiled Children	Un locataire	63
8	1978	French Fried Vacation	Fat guy who wants to go water skiing	66
9	1979	These Kids Are Grown-Ups	Le caissier	43
10	1979	Dog's Dialogue		65
11	1979	French Fried Vacation 2	Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late	73
12	1981	Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's	Le client au loden	63
13	1981	Heat of Desire	L'employé des wagons-lits	54
14	1981	Why Not Us?	Un client de la librairie	59
15	1981	The Inquisitor	Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner	76
16	1982	Lucie sur Seine	L'inspecteur au bonnet	0
17	1983	Deadly Circuit	l'homme à l'attaché-case	62
18	1984	Stress		52
19	1984	Manipulations	Michel	0
20	1984	New Year's Eve At Bob's		62
21	1986	Triple sec		0
22	1986	Ménage	The Nightclub Flirt	66
23	1986	L'Objectif		0
24	1986	Trop tard Balthazar	Lino	0
25	1987	Levy & Goliath	Cafe owner	51
26	1987	L'été en pente douce	Paul le vigile	64
27	1989	Elli Fat Mat		100
28	1993	The Thirst for Gold	Le gendarme	54
29	1994	Bab El Oued City	Paulo Gosen	60
30	2001	Les p'tits gars Ladouceur	Le chef de gare	95
31	2001	Felix and Lola	Frantz	60
32	2004	Mon fils d'ailleurs	The controller	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Le Gerfaut	Monsieur	90
2	2000	Ladies of the Law	Michel le vigile	61

Michel Such

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